The alleged extreme-right network in the police Department in Frankfurt am Main is only the tip of the iceberg? The suggest recent newspaper reports on Tuesday. The competent authorities shall keep still covered.
According to a report the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” of Tuesday, other departments caught in the scandal of extreme-right activities in the police Department of Frankfurt am Main into the visor. The report States, and Police departments in the Hessian district of Marburg-Biedenkopf had been searched. And there should be a connection with one of the officials, to have been a member of the Frankfurt network. In the Berlin “Tagesspiegel” in addition, more phones of officials were seized.
Swastikas and Hitler images
A week ago, the case of the five from the service, suspended a number of officials in Frankfurt had hit the headlines. You should have exchanged via a Messenger service xenophobic and extreme right images, Videos and texts. And for quite some time. For this purpose, the Frankfurt police President Gerhard Bereswill said Tuesday on ZDF: “It did, in fact, swastikas, Hitler images and the like, and the others were images and texts of folk-incitement type, directed against refugees, the disabled, against other people.”
The daily mirror reports, in safety circuits to be examined, whether there is a possible connection to the “Hannibal”-network. This is a right-wing grouping of officers and soldiers, prepared on an ominous day “X”, to the “Left” and refugees to be killed.
An anonymous Fax with the keyword “NSU 2.0”
The group flew after the Frankfurt attorney-at-law Seda Basay-Yildiz had reported in the summer of display. Basay-Yildiz had also appeared as a representative of the co-plaintiff in the Munich trial against the neo-Nazi group “national socialist underground” (NSU). In August, she received a Fax anonymously, in the “Türkensau” was insulted, and was threatened with a two year old daughter would be “slaughtered”. Now it became known that the Fax was apparently sent from a police station in Frankfurt. Five suspects officers, four men and a woman, were suspended from the service. The sender of the Fax had added to the Letter, the keyword of “NSU 2.0”.
Suspicion against the police was no longer
For excitement, the message that the state police should have known the Bureau in October that the investigation into the threat against Basay-Yildiz concerned, the police themselves caused.
Seda Basay-Yildiz (center) as a lawyer, the co-plaintiff in the Munich NSU process,
It had not forwarded this Information to the state office of criminal investigation, writes the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.” On Monday, the Prime Minister of Hesse, Volker Bouffier (CDU) said in Berlin: “I still can not be overlooked how far this goes, but it’s no doubt, that regard us very, very seriously, and we will be there with great determination.”
Hajo Funke: “trust in the police is shaken”
The political scientist and right-wing extremism expert Hajo Funke calls. He said in the “Second German television”: “The level of trust in the police is shaken.
“The Trend to extreme right-wing views to the police!”: Political Scientist Hajo Funke
Some Chance we have, that is now swiftly and fully enlightened!” Finally, the lawyer have to be reimbursed prior to four months of the display, and received no response. “There’s the question of what is to happen in these four months, of course!” The expert did not want to but still speak of a structural Problem in the police, but he can see a Trend towards extreme right-wing views among police officers.
The SPD requires dismissal
The SPD demanded against the officials, with full severity, you should confirm the accusations. The internal expert of the social Democrats, Burkhard Lischka requested, if necessary, the officials should be fired. “The behavior of an individual Hessian police officer, disclosed the abyss, and is criminal,” said the SPD-politician in a newspaper interview.
The case attracts more and more circles: in the Meantime, the Cologne criminal defense lawyer Mustafa Kaplan has been refunded due to an extreme right-wing hate mail with the subject “NSU 2.0” criminal complaint against unknown. As the Nachrichtenmagzin MIRROR writes, the Letter on Monday to the Prosecutor’s office in Cologne, Germany. Kaplan is in Germany as an advocate of NSU Victims, known and represents the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a dispute with the TV-man Jan böhmermann.